Aelred Of Rievaulx Quotes

#1. Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now ... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind. (p. 29)

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#2. No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

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#3. Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

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#4. Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

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#5. As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss ...

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#6. The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

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